Mumbai: India have announced their squad for upcoming ODI series against South Africa in February 2018.
Kedar Jadhav make a return from injury along with Shardul Thakur.
Notable misses from the squad are KL Rahul and Umesh Yadav.
The 17-member squad will be led by Virat Kolhi. Suresh Raina continues to be overlooked by selectors even after passing the Yo-Yo test last week.
India ODI squad: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma (vc), Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik (wk), MS Dhoni (wk), Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Hardik Pandya, Mohammed Shami, Shardul Thakur.
Shardul has replaced Siddharth Kaul, who did not get to play a match during the Sri Lanka series
The two seasoned spinners, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, were once again ignored as the selectors decided to persist with the young trio of wrist spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal along with left-arm orthodox Axar Patel.